Policy

One game-changer can deliver the promise of personalised healthcare. It is information technology, says Alan Davies of GE Healthcare.

Germany’s Fraunhofer centres are to set up a joint project centre in Asia, based at the Centre for Advanced Media Technology in Singapore.

The UK’s new coalition government has swept into office and announced immediate cuts of £6 billion in public spending.

The Swiss National Science Foundation has published its annual review, showing it funded around 2,900 research proposals worth €498 million in 2009.

Innovation may rest on R&D, but it takes place in a far bigger and more diverse context, says the UK’s new science minister, David Willetts.

Three leading institutions have joined forces in a bid for funding to become one of five new University Hospital Institutes being set up through France’s stimulus scheme.

Human genes are patentable, says the English Court of Appeal, but only if the patent describes a practical way that the gene or protein can be exploited.